Techmeme: Trends - now in 70 more locations (Carolyn Penner/Twitter Blog)

8:25 AM ET, April 12, 2011

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Henry Blodget / SAI:

The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It's Breathtaking — Remember Paul Ceglia? — He's the fellow in upstate New York who sued Mark Zuckerberg last July, claiming that, way back in 2003, Zuckerberg had agreed to give him a 50% ownership in the project that became Facebook.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Inquirer, CNET News, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, @felixsalmon, eWeek and Silicon Valley Watcher

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Paul Ceglia vs. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Here's the complaint and it's a good read — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg won a legal victory over Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who were appealing to increase a $65 million settlement, and now there's another lawsuit on the horizon.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Winklevosses To Challenge Today's Facebook Ruling — Earlier today a panel of Federal Appeals judges ruled that the Winklevoss twins had to accept a ruling that had them make due with a meager $65 million in settlement. But apparently the case is not closed, as the Winklevosses will be filing …

Discussion: The Register, Inquirer, BBC, USA Today, @tylerwinklevoss, Techdirt, Softpedia News and Digital Trends

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Winklevoss twins must accept Facebook deal: court — (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg won the latest legal battle against former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook, a multimillion-dollar feud made famous on the silver screen. — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer — Part of i/o Ventures first cohort, Pieceable is launching its first product today, the Pieceable Viewer. As you can see above with the Yelp app or here with apps like Hipmunk or Foodspotting, the viewer allows you to run …

Discussion: Inside Mobile Apps, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac and MacHackPC

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches — Bing is doing what no one used to think was possible: knocking search market share points off of Google, and collecting them. — Yes, Bing-powered search in the United States just broke the 30% barrier, clocking in at 30.01% in March according to Hitwise.

Discussion: Mashable!, Mobile Marketing Watch, Silicon Valley Watcher, Search Engine Land, SAI, The Microsoft Blog, Techie Buzz, WinRumors and GeekWire

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

Official: HTC Sensation features a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon CPU (video) — The HTC Sensation (aka, Pyramid) handset doesn't officially exist. But hey, if you're Qualcomm, why let a partner's own marketing plans interfere with your own need for self-promotion?

Discussion: BGR, Pocket-lint, MobileBurn.com, Electricpig.co.uk, IntoMobile, Unwired View, Electronista, PhoneArena, Ausdroid, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, wirelessgoodness.com and Phones Review

Joseph Galante / Bloomberg:

Amazon.com to Sell Kindle Digital Reader With Ads for $114 — Amazon.com Inc., the largest online retailer, will begin selling a version of its Kindle electronic- book reader that features advertisements and costs $114, 18 percent less than the ad-free device.

Discussion: paidContent, @chetansharma, Softpedia News, SAI, IntoMobile, FM Blog, eMoney, Ars Technica, TUAW, BetaNews, @om, @chartier, @ev, VentureBeat, MacNN, GeekWire, The Stranger …, Gizmodo Australia, @tomkrazit and SAI, more at Mediagazer »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon, Love The Kindle Ads Idea — But The Right Price Is $99

Discussion: Amazon.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, SocialTimes.com and PC Magazine

Samuel Gibbs / TUAW:

iPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking — Now that the iPad 2 has a front facing-camera and some decent horsepower under the hood, there's a lot of potential for really interesting camera-plus-screen co-ordination hacks.

Discussion: MacStories, Gadget Lab, BGR, SAI, Electronista, VentureBeat, MacRumors, IntoMobile, MacHackPC, I4U News, GeekSmack, SocialTimes.com, 9 to 5 Mac and Phones Review

Violet Blue / Tech Broiler Blog:

AOL/HuffPo Shuts Down Download Squad — In a surprise move Monday night, popular software blog Download Squad became the latest tech casualty in Huffington/AOL's so-called ‘consolidation’ of its content sites. In an end-of-the-day email, Download Squad's staff was told that the blog …

Discussion: Mashable!, TechEye, @mrseb, @dpkvnt, @andrewkam, @mrseb, @blogsdna, @samuelgibbs, @jkendrick and @primatage, Thanks:violetblue

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

iPhone 5 Production Starting In September According To Talks With Key Supplier — Apple's new iPhone 5 should go into production in September says Avian Securities in a note this morning. — This suggests the iPhone won't be on the market until the end of this year, or even early next year possibly, says Avian.

Tony Bradley / PC World:

Why Firefox Rapid Release Schedule Is a Bad Idea — Mozilla has committed to a more aggressive release schedule for the Firefox Web browser. There were nearly three years between the launch of Firefox 3 and Firefox 4, but Firefox 5 is expected to be introduced in a matter of months at the end of June.

Discussion: SAI

Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:

Trends - now in 70 more locations — We first launched Trends as a useful way for people to find out what topics are being talked about around the world, right now. Early last year, we added Local Trends to make it easier to find more locally relevant topics in specific countries and metropolitan locations.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Softpedia News and AllTwitter

Dan Goodin / The Register:

How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways — Blunders expose huge cracks in net's trust foundation — Analysis Every year or so, a crisis or three exposes deep fractures in the system that's supposed to serve as the internet's foundation of trust.

David Howard / TechNet Blogs:

Google's misleading security claims to the government raise serious questions — Corporate Vice Prsident & Deputy General Counsel — Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development …

Steven Levy:

Kremlinology — In 1999, when Google had its first press conference—to announce its $25 VC financing and generally introduce itself to the world as a company- Larry and Sergey prepared some slides. One slide focused on the Google team. But it did not provide the full names of Google's early brainiacs.

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Nokia E7 review — Over the years, we've seen a steady stream of business and messaging-centric landscape QWERTY smartphones come and go, with HTC arguably leading the pack via its collection of Windows Mobile, Android, and WP7 devices featuring sliding keyboards and tilt-out displays.

Discussion: Inquirer, IntoMobile, Ars Technica, Light Reading, All About Symbian, DisplayBlog and Phones Review

Nicholas Deleon / MobileCrunch:

Study: Smartphone Users Wasting Hundreds Of Dollars Per Year On Unnecessary Contracts — A new study says that smartphone users are overpaying for their service by several hundred dollars each and every year. The study, put together by Billmonitor, notes that people are overspending primarily …

Discussion: BBC

Doug Caverly / WebProNews:

Google Invests $168 Million In “Solar Power Tower Plant” — Last week, Google announced that it was investing $5 million in a German solar power plant, and many people nodded in appreciation. Only it turns out the search giant was just warming up, as the company announced today it's …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, Mashable! and CNET News

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Apple component makers downplay rumors of Retina iPad 3 arriving in 2011 — Component makers for Apple's iPad claim that the company has released its roadmap for higher-resolution touchscreen tablets, but the project is still at the “initial planning stage” and an upgraded iPad is unlikely …

Discussion: SAI, DigiTimes, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, MacHackPC, TUAW, SlashGear, MacNN, Phones Review, I4U News, iClarified and MacRumors

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPad 2 helps Apple suppliers post 141% year over year growth in March

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Confirmed: Sprint getting Motorola XOOM with WiMAX — We exclusively reported Sprint would be getting an identical version of the Motorola XOOM sans LTE and adding a WiMAX radio, and we now have received a second confirmation — cases for the Motorola XOOM just started showing up at Sprint stores nationwide.

Discussion: Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, PhoneArena, MobileWhack, wirelessgoodness.com and Know Your Cell

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

In Challenge To Google Places, Microsoft Launches “Bing Business Portal” For SMBs — This morning Microsoft is launching the “Bing Business Portal” (BBP). It replaces the the Bing Local Listing Center, and all listings already there have already been migrated over.

Discussion: SAI, LiveSide.net, Bing, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, The Next Web, NewsGrange, PC World, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, WinRumors and Neowin.net

Dave Rosenberg / Software, Interrupted:

Cloudera ups the ante on open-source Hadoop — The Hadoop open-source project for distributed compute processing continues to be one of the most interesting projects for managing the vast amount of data being analyzed and collected in a wide variety of scenarios.

Discussion: NewEnterprise, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunchIT, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, The Register and Cloudera

Kellex / Droid Life:

Download: Skype with Video on Android — Here you go HTC Thunderbolt owners - Skype with video has arrived for you to install and enjoy. Get your video chat on, from just about anywhere. — Download: com.skypevideo.apk [mirror] [mirror] — Download: [zipped version] - Do not try to flash in Clockwork.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Engadget, PhoneArena, Android Community, Erictric, SAI, Android Phone Fans and Skype Journal

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing and Block The Pirate Bay — Through the actions of anti-piracy outfit BREIN, The Netherlands has been in the news regularly in connection with file-sharing and copyright related cases. — The group was responsible for the demise …

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